Snap Happy
The name does not, as I have believed for so very long, have anything to do with loud artillery. This makes every explosive noise I’ve ever made while taking a photograph kind of redundant. Of course, Katy always knew better, although she didn’t know that the brand Canon actually comes from the Buddhist god of ...
Our Final Dip
Almost 80 days have passed since we first experienced onsens and as we are about to leave Kyushu, one of the homes of the traditional hot spring, we thought we’d cover them one last time. I’m genuinely not sure how many hotels and resorts we’ve been in since that day in Niigata that have onsens, but ...
Back to the Wild
Travelling as native English speakers we’ve found our mother tongues getting progressively worse. A sentence like: “Mum and dad’s garden became bigger over the years,” can devolve to something clunky like: “The garden of my mother and father has become more big.” It’s part of making yourself more understood, but when you suddenly bump into ...